TY - JOUR
T1 - Research Participation Versus Classroom Lecture: A Comparison of Student Learning
AU - Elliott, Lisa Jo
AU - Rice, Stephen
AU - Trafimow, David
AU - Madson, Laura
AU - Hipshur, Malisa F.
PY - 2010/4/1
Y1 - 2010/4/1
N2 - Previous literature has focused on students' perceptions of participation in experiments, but has not measured the effect of participation on learning. In Study 1, students rated their perceptions of learning about psychology; they compared the classroom experience to experiment participation, reading about psychology, or summarizing a journal article. In Experiment 2, students either participated in an experiment or listened to a lecture on the experiment's concept. Results indicate that students not only preferred experimental participation to classroom lectures, but that students learned as much about the psychological concept by participating in an experiment as they did by listening to a lecture.
AB - Previous literature has focused on students' perceptions of participation in experiments, but has not measured the effect of participation on learning. In Study 1, students rated their perceptions of learning about psychology; they compared the classroom experience to experiment participation, reading about psychology, or summarizing a journal article. In Experiment 2, students either participated in an experiment or listened to a lecture on the experiment's concept. Results indicate that students not only preferred experimental participation to classroom lectures, but that students learned as much about the psychological concept by participating in an experiment as they did by listening to a lecture.
UR - https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/psy_facpub/162
UR - http://doi.org/10.1080/00986281003626862
U2 - 10.1080/00986281003626862
DO - 10.1080/00986281003626862
M3 - Article
SN - 1532-8023
VL - 37
JO - Teaching of Psychology
JF - Teaching of Psychology
ER -